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Kickstarter Stat Check
Here’s a stat check from Kickstarter: Of the 385,810 total projects, only 35.6% were successful as of today. The top five crowdfunding categories (in order) are: Music, Film, Games, Publishing and Art. In the Music category: 10% raised <$1,000; 71% raised … Continue reading
Posted in accredited investor, balance, checkbook, Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Film, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, technology, VC, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged Crowd Fund Act, crowdfund, crowdfunding, donations, donor, failure, games, IndieGoGo, kickstarter, marketing, music, rewards, success, technology, web
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Robot Crowdfunds Its Brain
Creepiest crowdfunding campaign yet (and possibly a problematic one) is the initial coin offering to fund the artificial intelligence of a humanoid robot, Sophia. The fiat currency is being raised to fund ” SingularityNET, an open source platform for AI … Continue reading
Posted in accredited investor, Banking, Banks, CFTC, checkbook, Congress, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, technology, VC, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged AGI, AI, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, crowd fund, crowdfunding, Hanson Robotics, ICO, initial coin offering, open source, registration, robot, SEC, securities, Securities and Exchange Commission, SingularityNET, technology, token, web
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SEC Says Bitcoins Are Securities
The Securities and Exchange Commission has ruled that bitcoins are securities and subject to Federal (and probably State) regulation. The SEC investigated the offering by the Decentralized Autonomous Organization, a “virtual” organization embodied in computer code and executed on a … Continue reading
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Tagged assets, bitcoin, blockchain, computer code, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, DAO, decentralized autonomous organization, distributed ledger, internet, investment, investment contract, open source, SEC, secondary market, technology, tokens, trading, virtual, web
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Bad Crowdfunding Ideas
So, aside from outright fraud, there are a multitude of crowdfunding campaigns that are just a bad idea, stupid or wrong. Huffpost Australia has cataloged a few, including: the woman who asked for money to finance her US Green Card … Continue reading
Posted in accredited investor, balance, checkbook, Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, discrepancies, Film, fraud, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, review, SEC, Small Business, technology, VC, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged bad idea, balls, campaign, charity, chutzpah, crowd fund, crowdfunding, curation, divorce, donation, donor, equity, fraud, ideas, IndieGoGo, kickstarter, marketing, money, technology, truth, web
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Crowdfunding Legitimized by Silicon Valley
Crowdfunding has been legitimized in Silicon Valley now by Silicon Valley, the HBO series. After losing two rich benefactors and discovering that no VC would touch Richard’s “second internet on cellphones” idea, Jared has come up with the idea of … Continue reading
Posted in accredited investor, Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Film, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, technology, VC, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged comedy, crowd fund, crowdfunding, entertainment, Erlich Bachman, financing, HBO, internet, open source, second internet, Silicon Valley, technology, TJ Miller, TV, VC, venture capital, web
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Gust Alleviates Patent Claim on Crowdfunding
Patent trolls have shaken down crowdfunding sites in the past, but David Rose, CEO of Gust, fought back and won. A patent troll is a company that buys patent rights, then threatens to sue a company that is using certain … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Corp, Alice Corp vs. CLS Bank International, AlphaCap, blackmail, claims, crowdfund, crowdfunding, Gust, intellectual property, internet, lawsuit, litigation, open source, patent, patent rights, patent troll, settlement, Supreme Court, technology, web, web portal
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Charity Crowdfunding Platform Profits By Helping Others
If charity begins at home, GoFundMe is a great example of that. With over $3 billion raised from more than 25 million donors since it started in 2010, quick and dirty math suggests that its owners have pulled in more … Continue reading
Posted in balance, Charity, checkbook, Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Tax
Tagged cause, charity, content distribution, digital, disaster, donor, funerals, Good Samaritan, helping, hurricane, internet, marketing, medical expenses, natural disaster, needy, non-profit, operations, Planned Parenthood, platform, populist, social media, technology, victims, web
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